Eating Bull Has Launched—Let the Extroverted Games Begin
A few days ago I opened my Word documents and clicked on my Eating Bull file. I wanted to see when I first started the novel.…
Oh No, Not That Word Again: Uncommon Words Commonly Used in Fiction
You know how every action movie has a car chase? Every TV show a tidy resolution? Well, books have repetition too, and it comes in the…
Deep Genre: Taking the Thriller Beyond Cheap Thrills—Author Barbara Kyle
Last week author and story coach Barbara Kyle sent me a supportive email about my novel, Eating Bull, and the uphill publishing battle it’s faced given…
Careful, Your Frasier Crane Is Showing: Using Big Words In Writing When Smaller Ones Will Do
“It seems to be a pattern that if there is a normal word and an unconventional word, you pick the unconventional one. Sometimes that puts another…
Reversion—A Thrilling Read
We all have bad days. Bad weeks even. But I doubt many of us have had a string of bad days like Dr. Tessa Price. Have…
“En Garde: My Battle with Breast Cancer” and The Mind-Body Connection
I recently read En Garde: My Battle with Breast Cancer by author and fellow blogger Ronnie Hammer. In it, Ms. Hammer discusses the fear and anxiety she…
